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Gabriel Fauré is sometimes overshadowed by the generation of composers that followed the trail he had quietly illuminated. He was more than the composer of one much-loved piece, the Requiem. He was crucial to a movement that aimed to establish a characteristically French style of composition. The youngest son of a schoolmaster in south-west France, he rose to become director of the Paris Conservatoire and was mentor to the composers Maurice Ravel, Georges Enescu and Nadia Boulanger. The restraint and subtlety of his music concealed a passionate heart. When he was sent as a nine-year-old to the Niedermeyer School for church music in Paris, Fauré had no intention of becoming a composer. His aim was a nice, secure job as a choirmaster and organist. But he was soon under the influence of his school piano teacher, the dynamic composer Camille Saint-Saëns. Just ten years Fauré's senior, it was Saint-Saëns who encouraged him to set pen to paper. He wrote his first song, ‘Le

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